This quarter release of The Modellers Database (cat.no. 1364.0.15.003) will give our clients a fresh look of all the time series spreadsheets resulting from the conversion of the current Lotus 1-2-3 .wks spreadsheets to Excel .xls format.

The new product provides a range of benefits for time series clients, the most significant of which is the use of a unique identifier for each series. This allows clients to reliably extract series using the unique identifier, rather than column and rows based macros. Other features of the Excel format include:

consistent and complete series metadata is provided for every series displayed

a readily recognised file format (Excel) that will 'auto launch' in most business IT environments

The new format files can be opened, read and manipulated using Excel 5.0/95 (or equivalent), however, some features will not be available unless you have Excel 97 (or better).
INQUIRIES

For further information or if you have any queries about the change or related statistics, contact Valentin M. Valdez on (02) 6252 7037.

Notices for March Quarter 2008:

IDENTIFIER

DESCRIPTION

COMMENTS

Information from Treasury

VMZ

Private Wealth at Market Value

For information, Treasury is currently conducting a review of the TRYM business investment and consumption equations, and the method underlying the estimation of private sector wealth. Users of TRYM will be advised of the outcomes of this review in future releases.

Modeller's Database Table Contents:

Table 01: NIF Private Final Consumption - Seasonally Adjusted

NIF Series

Description

VNEQ.UC_CRE$

Rent and other dwelling services

VNEQ.AC_CON$

Total Household Final Consumption Expenditure

VNEQ.UK90_CRE

Rent and other dwelling services (Chain Volume Measure)

VNEQ.AK90_CON

Total Household Final Consumption Expenditure, (Chain Volume Measure)

Table 02: NIF Demand And Expenditure - Seasonally Adjusted

NIF Series

Description

VNEQ.AC_DGC$

Final consumption expenditure General government Total national

VNEQ.AC_DGS$

Final consumption expenditure General government State and Local

VNEQ.AC_DIS$

Statistical Discrepancy (E)

VNEQ.AC_SDI$

Statistical Discrepancy (I)

VNEQ.AC_DPC$

Public Gross Fixed Capital Formation - General Government Total national + Gross Fixed Capital Formation - Public corporations Commonwealth

VNEQ.AC_DPS$

Public Gross Fixed Capital Formation - General Government - State and local + Public Gross Fixed Capital Formation - Public corporations - State and local

VNEQ.AK90_DGC

Final consumption expenditure - General government - Total national (Chain Volume Measure)

VNEQ.AK90_DGS

Final consumption expenditure - General government - State and Local (Chain Volume Measure)